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In the 19th century, American theatres provided the stage for a war between high and low culture, the elite and ‘Know-Nothings’ – and Britain and the US. In 1849, events turned bloody.

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Tags: theatre, usa, united kingdom, plays, author.robert davis, source.historytoday
https://www.historytoday.com/robert-davis/britain-and-americas-theatrical-war

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Britain and America's Theatrical War
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    Grendel
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    This kind of thing really makes me realize how little changes over time. Today you hear people talk about the "one percent" and back then it was about the "ten percent". The protests and riots of...

    This kind of thing really makes me realize how little changes over time. Today you hear people talk about the "one percent" and back then it was about the "ten percent". The protests and riots of today seem to stem from the same class issues of the 19nth century.

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    1. Algernon_Asimov
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      I was struck by the same thing when I read the article. Even this... ... could be a description of certain political groups here and now. It's like nothing has changed in the past century and a...

      This kind of thing really makes me realize how little changes over time.

      I was struck by the same thing when I read the article. Even this...

      Know-Nothings were anti-Catholic, anti-Irish, anti-suffrage isolationists who believed that temperance, mandatory religious education in schools and severe immigration policies would generate economic prosperity.

      ... could be a description of certain political groups here and now.

      It's like nothing has changed in the past century and a half. We have all these new technologies and we've had numerous social movements, but... under it all... we're still the same people arguing about the same things.

      "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

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